The Surgeon General on Health Via Happiness
"Happiness is not an emotion, an inherited disposition that is awarded to a select few, or even dependent on events that happen to you in life." Rather, the U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy argues that "happiness is a perspective, and that everyone can create it for themselves with four simple, free approaches: gratitude exercises, meditation, physical activity and social connectedness." In this... posted on Dec 08 2015, 24,302 reads

Debt As A Relationship Based On Love
For all that debt contains and constrains us, debts worth having are all around when we care to look for them. The debts that are worth having are those that allow us to be more fully ourselves, that we honor with our freedom rather than our servitude. This article presents a revolutionary way of looking at debt and provides a vision for a more compassionate and relationship-based debt system.... posted on Dec 07 2015, 8,821 reads

Eight Steps Towards Forgiveness
No matter who you are, you have undoubtedly experienced hurt in your life. And oftentimes, that hurt is compounded by the fact that you do not have the tools necessary to offer forgiveness, and thus begin the healing process that is critical to moving on with your life. In this succinct essay, Robert Enright offers a path to help move us towards forgiveness.... posted on Dec 06 2015, 0 reads

The Joys of Giving Large
Jeff Kaufman and Julia Wise are a young couple living in Boston. Jeff is a software engineer at Google and Julia is a social worker. For the past few years they've been giving away nearly 60 percent of their after-tax income to charities working to reduce poverty and save lives in developing countries. ...That's a lot of money, and it sounds like a big sacrifice. But they insist that it isn't...... posted on Dec 05 2015, 10,863 reads

Invisible Wings: A Tea Seller Who Travelled the World
65-year old tea seller Vijayan and his wife Mohana (who had never traveled outside of her home town of Ernakulam, Kerala before her marriage) have been to 16 countries and across most of India. Every three years or so, after paying off loans and saving a little money (at the rate of a few dollars a day) the couple shuts down their tea stall (their only source of income) and sets off for another de... posted on Dec 04 2015, 4,320 reads

I Have Time
Hurrying speeds us away from the present moment, expressing a wish to be in the future because we think we're going to be late. To counter it, Master Alexander teacher Walter Carrington told his students to repeat each time they begin an action: "I have time."... posted on Dec 03 2015, 21,575 reads

Permaculture's Expansive View of Wealth
There are many ways to think of wealth. Approaches that lead to 'financialization' focus on 1 particular category of wealth. Read more about one regenerative approach in this interview with permaculturalist Ethan Roland.... posted on Dec 02 2015, 5,977 reads

Does It Pay To Be Kind To Strangers?
Generous people are happier and healthier, yet acts of kindness are often met with suspicion and scorn. Why? David Robson talks to a psychologist who set out to find the answer.... posted on Dec 01 2015, 7,835 reads

Bus 7 and the Grandma in the Window
She was known to the children in Bus 7 simply as 'Grandma in the window'. Their connection was forged by the daily waves they exchanged as their bus crossed her home. A connection so deep that when the 93-yr-old missed her waving 'vigil' the children demanded the bus driver stop. It turned out that their dear friend had suffered a debilitating stroke. While she convalesced at a local care facilit... posted on Nov 30 2015, 16,067 reads

My Daughter Malala
Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't want to hear: Women and men deserve equal opportunities for education, autonomy, an independent identity. In this TED talk, Yousafzai tells stories from his own life and the life of his daughter, Malala, who was shot in the head at point blank range by the Taliban in 2012 simply for daring to go to school. Yo... posted on Nov 29 2015, 3,728 reads